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China has offered to invest in Britain’s railways by funding and building
links to a new Birmingham station on the high-speed HS2 network.

The offer from China Railway Group comes shortly after David Cameron’s trip to
the country, when Li Keqiang, the Chinese Prime Minister, offered to invest
directly in the Government’s £50 billion high-speed rail line.

Ministers are promoting HS2 as a project that can establish Britain as a world
leader in high-speed rail engineering. The Government, though, is sensitive
to the fact that Beijing’s offers to finance infrastructure in other
countries have often been contingent on awarding building contracts